. Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound . ming a rough figure 8 in the train is run in two sections, passengers are able to seethe other section at a higher or lower level (according to whichone they are in) making its way up the big grade. KickingHorse Pass owes its name to an incident of early pioneeringdays in which a kicking horse figured literally. Wapta Camp, on Wapta Lake (Hector Station) is an attrac-tive summer resort for tourists, consisting of rustic bungalowswith a central community house
. Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound . ming a rough figure 8 in the train is run in two sections, passengers are able to seethe other section at a higher or lower level (according to whichone they are in) making its way up the big grade. KickingHorse Pass owes its name to an incident of early pioneeringdays in which a kicking horse figured literally. Wapta Camp, on Wapta Lake (Hector Station) is an attrac-tive summer resort for tourists, consisting of rustic bungalowswith a central community house. The Great Divide 5298 Six miles before Lake Louise is the Great Divide, which is atonce the highest elevation of the Canadian Pacific Railway, theboundary between Alberta and British Columbia, and the verybackbone of the conti-nent. It is marked bya rustic jarch spanninga stream under whichthe water divides,by one of thesefreaks by which Na-ture diverts herself,into two little brooksthat have vastly dif-ferent fates. The wat-ers that flow to theeast eventually reachHudson Bay and the Atlantic Ocean: the The Great Divide. 36 Across Canada Chateau Lake Louise rivulet that runs to the west adds its mite to the volume of thePacific. On the right is the granite shaft erected to the memoryof Sir James Hector, the discoverer of the Kicking Horse is the pass which permits the Canadian Pacific Railway tocross the Rockies. Lake Louise 50H Twenty miles from Field we reach LakeLouise. To reach the lake we must as-cend another 620 feet, which we do by means of a light gasolinerailway. Turning a shoulder of the mountain, we come sud-denly into full view of Lake Louise, named after PrincessLouise, wife of the Marquis of Lome, one-time Governor-General of Canada. This is one of the most perfect gems ofscenery in the world—a lake of the deepest and most ex-quisite coloring, ever changing, defying analysis, mirroring inits wonderful depths the sombre forests and cliffs that rise fr
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